Improved bedstead fastening



@mungitura @anni @fitta LEONARD L. JACKSON, OF PATERSON, NEW JERSEY,ASSIGNOR 'lO HIM SELFAND JOHN'FRAME, OF MIDDLETOWN, NEW YORK.

Leners Panam. 67,766, dated August 1s. 1867.

IMPROVED BEDSTEAD FASTBNING.

TO -ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:

Be it known that I, LEONARD L. JACKSON, ofPaterson, in the county ofPassaic, and'iState of New Jersey, have invented a. new and usefulimprovement in Bcdstcad Fastening; and I do hereby declare that thefollowing is a full, clcar, and exact description thereof, which-'willenable others skilled in the art to maire and use the same, referencebeing had to the accompanying drawings forming part of thisspecification.

Figure 1 is a toprview of my improved bedstead. A'

Figures 2, 3, and 4, are detail views, partly in section, showingdiierent ways in which the fastening may be secured.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

My invention has for its object to furnish an improved bedsteadfastening, simple in construction, reliable in operation, and which willenable the bedstead to be easilyand quickly set up and taken down. Andit consists in slotting the lends ofthe side rails of the bedstead insuch a way that one or both the arms or parts thus formed sha-ll havesufficient elasticity to allow the dove-tailed tenon formed upon its endto be sprung'into the dove-tailed mortse formed in the posts; and in themanner in which the slotted endsofthesaid side rails are secured inplace.

A are the end rails, which are secured to the posts B in the ordinarymanner;V C are the side rails, upon the ends of which are formeddove-tailed tenons, fitting into dove-tailed4 mortises formed in theposts B,as shown in figs. 2, 3, and 4. -The ends of the side rails C areslotted in such a way andfor such a distance that one or both the armsor branches thus `formed may have suicient elasticity to enable thedove-tailed tenen to he readily sprung into and out of dove-tailedmortises formed in the posts. The slotted ends ofthe rails O maybesecured in place in the posts in various ways as by a swi'velledthumb-screw, D,.theforward end of which is swivelled to a plate attachedto lthe lower edge of the upper arm of the slotted en'd of the rail, andwhich passes through a. nutk let into or secured to the lower arm ofsaid rail, so that by turning the said screw in one direction the arms`of the rail will be drawn'towards each other sothatathc tenon may bereadily passed into or taken out of the mortise, and by turning thescrew in the other direction the arms ofthe rail will be spread apart soas'to tit the mortise, securing the rail and post firmly together,

This construction I prefer; but if desired the arms of therai'l may hespread apart by a set-screw, E, passing through a Vnut secured to thelower arm,and its forward end pressing against the lower edge of theupper arm, as shown in fig. 3. In this case the branched ends of theruil must be sprung into and out of the mortise by hand. OrY the armsofthe said rails may be spread apart to sec-ure them to theposts bywedges F, driven between the said slotted arms, as shown in fig. 2. -Inthis case also' tho slotted arms must be sprung into and out of theposts by hand.

I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Iatent- Fastening a.bedstead-raii in place by placing its forked ends in slots, and forcingthem apart by set-screws -or wedges, as and for the-purpose specified.

LEONARD L. JACKSON.

Witnesses:

J. M. H. LITTLE, JmAH .I. Foora

